Creating Character Arc
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
Write and sell your best book or script - with storytelling tricks from your favorite movies!
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Three essential questions about your protagonist
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
What's your Author BRAND?
Along with the small matter of writing your book, you need to work on defining it for agents, publishers, libraries, your website and promo material - and READERS.
A Book By the End of the Year - let's get started!
It’s the MIDPOINT of our year - which is a perfect time to start a book — or recommit to the one you’re writing so that it really does get done this year.
The book will write itself
Do you have an unfinished book hidden in a drawer because you think it's not good enough? Do you wonder how you can possibly pull off a book when every author out there started long before you did?
Sense & Sensibility - story breakdown (& tentpole scenes)
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
The six tentpole scenes of your book
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
THE GRAPEVINE RV road tour: Day 3
by Craig Robertson
THE GRAPEVINE - road trip thriller out now!
This week Craig & I are embarked on our epic and possibly ill-advised RV road trip launch tour for The Grapevine.
Are you ready to write that book?
It’s almost July, which means we have half a year to write our next book - or our first!
10 Essential Elements of Act I (full article)
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
10 Essential Elements of Act I
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
Writing Act I: HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER'S STONE
I love teaching Harry Potter as an introduction to story structure because it’s often a lot easier to see these story elements we’ve been talking about at work in a fantasy. And it’s always best to start with a movie you know well already.
The Three-Act, Eight-Sequence structure
The MOST important thing you can do to master story structure is to learn this essential film history - and how to apply it to your books.
A Book by the End of the Year: INDEX CARDS
You've done the prep work. Now let's brainstorm your entire book, with a Hollywood shortcut.
Write a Book This Year - from the beginning
In the next few weeks I'll review some of the core principles of the writing method I teach to jump start your Book By the End of the Year.
High Concept case study: YESTERYEAR
High Concept is the Holy Grail of book ideas - pretty much an instant book deal. But authors very often struggle to grasp what High Concept really means.
What do we do about the "rape academies"?
It's sexual assault awareness month and some explosive revelations have made it the conversation of the week.
A Book by the End of the Year
Projecting an actual timeframe is extremely helpful when you're making this commitment. So let’s try it again!
It's Spring! Let's break down Four Weddings & a Funeral
I teach authors story structure by using movie examples because these classic elements of storytelling are MUCH easier to spot and internalize by watching movies.